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Dominant Dustin Johnson Becomes World Number One

By: Golfshake Editor | Mon 20 Feb 2017


Producing a dominant performance, Dustin Johnson crushed the field at Riviera to win the Genesis Open by five shots with rounds of 66-66-64-71. Using the 2017 M1 460 Driver and TP5X Ball, the U.S. Open champion secured his 13th victory on the PGA Tour to displace Jason Day as world number one.

After playing M1 for most of 2016, Johnson experimented with M2 for a few months at the end of 2016, before finally landing back with the new 2017 M1 460 driver due to the overall performance. The 2017 M1 provided him with 500rpm less spin than his M2 and was going around 8 yards further on Trackman.

Dustin also put the new 2017 M2 3HL Fairway Wood in play this week. It's cut to a 5 wood length i.e. 1" shorter than standard and has 16* loft. With this combo, Dustin carries it 280 yards, which is exactly what he's looking for in a 3 wood - at standard length it was just going too far.

After switching to the new M1 460 driver this week and the TP5X ball last week, Dustin averaged 321 yards off the tee in R4 at Riviera and gained 1.84 strokes over the field across all four rounds with his Spider putter. Season to date, Dustin is also no.2 in Strokes Gained in "driving distance", "off-the-tee" and "tee-to-green".

Dustin wore adidas Golf apparel and footwear during the tournament, ensuring he was 'Geared For More' in the various weather conditions at Riviera. Dustin's win marks yet another win for adidas Golf footwear across the PGA and European Tour.

What You Need To Know:

- In winning the Genesis Open, Dustin Johnson becomes the new #1 in the World for the first time in his career.

- Dustin played the all-new M1 460 2017 driver for the first time at Riviera.

- Dustin wears adidas Golf apparel and footwear

- Dustin joins Jack & Tiger to be the only player, since 1960, to have won a PGA TOUR event in their first 10 seasons since turning pro.

- Dustin plays the Spider putter - the #1 Putter Model on TOUR at this week's Genesis Open. This was the second consecutive week that Spider was the #1 putter model on PGA TOUR.

- After switching last week at Pebble, Dustin becomes the third player this year to win with the new TP5X/TP5 golf ball.

- TaylorMade won the driver count at the Genesis Open with 69 drivers in play - more than double the nearest competitor.

- This win marks the SIXTH global win for M Drivers.

Dustin Johnson "What's in the Bag"

- M1 (2017) 460 Driver / 10.5* / Fuji Speeder Evolution 661 X Tour Spec 2.0

M2 (2017) 3HL Fairway Wood / 16* / HZRDUS T1100

- RSi TP UDI #2 / HZRDUS Black 105 X

- TP MBs / 3-PW / DG X100

Milled Grind Wedges / 52 & 60 / KBS Black 130 X

- Spider Tour Black Putter

- TP5x Golf Ball

- Tour Preferred Glove

- Tour New Era 9Fifty Headwear

- adidas Golf TOUR360 Boost Footwear

- adidas Golf Polo, Outerwear and Pants


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